SX PAYOUT?

Bottom line is that the top 10-20 riders are gonna get the big bucks and the guys who have a hard time making the mains wont get much and theirs nothing you can do about it.

I take it they got a bail out and are having it in some high price golf resort then.

Make up your mind is it just stewart and reed or now is it the top 10 to 20?

This thread was about the bottom riders getting the shaft. Stewart and Reed are the top two when its time to get paid but all the factory riders make great money. I am saying the best riders get the most money and thats who people pay to see.

Are you saying 1st place prize money is less if a privateer won than if a factory rider won?

What does 20th place pay out at your local track? They could probably show up there, get 1st and make more than they do for 20th at an SX, but they chose to show up and try anyway. I don't see how that is being exploited.

Are you serious?
Evryone knows that its James and Chad up front then a fight for 3-easily 12 every weekend.
And thats where all the great battles are happening.
Thats why I wish Speed would show the LCQ for every round, its the best racing!

SX or MX will never become "mainstream" if purses continue to stay the same.

Only about 220 licensed National AMA SX/MX racers today.

Only what; like 20 riders, maybe +/- a few more make a good living.

If a sport pays a good amount to support a family, home, nice vehicle, etc, you would see many more take up the sport, which would help the industry and bring in more riders to the local scene and as some rise up to qualify for the National ranks, you could see more fans follow along, especially in MX as well as SX.

You use to be able to make more if you were a top local rider in contingencies than a "prestigious" National two digit number would in purse dough. Even 30+ Pros could make a good couple thousand in contigency dough winning 3-4 classes each weekend.10+K a month; that was real living money.

That's sad and in another few years, they'll be less than 200 licensed Nat Pros. Use to be that many, if not more at a National Qualifying for 60 spots.

Sure we're in an economic funk now, but when we weren't.....it's BS to race and risk your life to pay $200 bucks to race and if make a main that gets you enough for your entry plus travel gas, motel and some food money, few nic-nacs.

450 sx 1st place pays 8 x what 450 mx pays , seems like alot more work for alot less money ! that's crazy - and then in mx 250's have the same purse as 450s but in sx 250's get about 1/5 the purse !

The bottom line is the non factory riders are dumber than shit. They are just happy to ride there scooters and let the track promoters prostitute them out for there gain. My suggestion to them is to stay home. Let there be a 12 rider gate and then they would see some changes. As long as these guys are happy to race for free the track promoters will be more than happy to take there entry fees and whore them out.

^I love it.^ Remember what happened in vegas though.

For every REAL privateer out there trying to make a living there are 5 kids out there on mom & dads dime. They don't care about making money because they don't have a dime invested anyway. They just want to be seen out there. As soon as the parents pull the plug they just quit; seen it a million times. Sadly enough; I don't think there will ever be a legit revolution for the amount of suck asses and rich kids in the sport.

Can you please resend the link to the Impound MX payout info? I couldn't get it to load.

You can find the last 4 years of AMA purse and how much each rider on the circuit was paid by the AMA here: http://www.nrgmx.org/News/AMAPay.html

Can someone post the top 20 payout for 450 SX please. I cant get the above payout page to load. Thanks.

Looking at thet payout, if I were a privateer, I'd skip the lites class altogether.

According to the list, the payout to make the night show is $550 for 40th. They got 37 entries last week, so that guarantee's you into the night show. If you get lucky and make the night show, that's $2200 (20th). That's just under WINNING the lites class. ($2500)

To get the same payout in the lites class, you need to finish 7th... which would you do?

Lites privateers must not be looking at that scenario. Just about a guarantee to make $550 just for entering. Hmmm..

Outdoor Nat's... I think I'd be a SX only guy too.

According to NRG, 2009 payouts. For the above link (page) to load, you must use IE, not Firefox.

450F SX 1 $12,000 250F SX 1 $2,500
450F SX 2 $6,000 250F SX 2 $1,500
450F SX 3 $4,250 250F SX 3 $1,000
450F SX 4 $3,250 250F SX 4 $800
450F SX 5 $3,010 250F SX 5 $700
450F SX 6 $2,780 250F SX 6 $600
450F SX 7 $2,530 250F SX 7 $550
450F SX 8 $2,430 250F SX 8 $500
450F SX 9 $2,380 250F SX 9 $450
450F SX 10 $2,330 250F SX 10 $420
450F SX 11 $2,300 250F SX 11 $410
450F SX 12 $2,280 250F SX 12 $400
450F SX 13 $2,255 250F SX 13 $390
450F SX 14 $2,230 250F SX 14 $380
450F SX 15 $2,205 250F SX 15 $370
450F SX 16 $2,180 250F SX 16 $360
450F SX 17 $2,155 250F SX 17 $350
450F SX 18 $2,130 250F SX 18 $340
450F SX 19 $2,105 250F SX 19 $330
450F SX 20 $2,085 250F SX 20 $320
450F SX 21 $1,200 250F SX 21 $310
450F SX 22 $1,000 250F SX 22 $300
450F SX 23 $900 250F SX 23 $230
450F SX 24 $850 250F SX 24 $230
450F SX 25 $800 250F SX 25 $230
450F SX 26 $750 250F SX 26 $230
450F SX 27 $700 250F SX 27 $230
450F SX 28 $650 250F SX 28 $230
450F SX 29 $600 250F SX 29 $230
450F SX 30 $550 250F SX 30 $230
450F SX 31 $550 250F SX 31 $230
450F SX 32 $550 250F SX 32 $230
450F SX 33 $550 250F SX 33 $230
450F SX 34 $550 250F SX 34 $230
450F SX 35 $550 250F SX 35 $230
450F SX 36 $550 250F SX 36 $230
450F SX 37 $550 250F SX 37 $230
450F SX 38 $550 250F SX 38 $230
450F SX 39 $550 250F SX 39 $230
450F SX 40 $550 250F SX 40 $230
450F SX Total $76,385 250F SX Total $17,420

AMA Supercross Event Total $93,805

AMA National Motocross Purse per Moto Entry Fee $
Class Series Position Payout Class Series Position Payout
450F MX 1 $1,525.00 250F MX 1 $1,525.00
450F MX 2 $1,075.00 250F MX 2 $1,075.00
450F MX 3 $900.00 250F MX 3 $900.00
450F MX 4 $705.00 250F MX 4 $705.00
450F MX 5 $645.00 250F MX 5 $645.00
450F MX 6 $615.00 250F MX 6 $615.00
450F MX 7 $570.00 250F MX 7 $570.00
450F MX 8 $555.00 250F MX 8 $555.00
450F MX 9 $545.00 250F MX 9 $545.00
450F MX 10 $520.00 250F MX 10 $520.00
450F MX 11 $495.00 250F MX 11 $495.00
450F MX 12 $445.00 250F MX 12 $445.00
450F MX 13 $415.00 250F MX 13 $415.00
450F MX 14 $405.00 250F MX 14 $405.00
450F MX 15 $390.00 250F MX 15 $390.00
450F MX 16 $380.00 250F MX 16 $380.00
450F MX 17 $370.00 250F MX 17 $370.00
450F MX 18 $360.00 250F MX 18 $360.00
450F MX 19 $350.00 250F MX 19 $350.00
450F MX 20 $330.00 250F MX 20 $330.00
450F MX 21 $320.00 250F MX 21 $320.00
450F MX 22 $310.00 250F MX 22 $310.00
450F MX 23 $300.00 250F MX 23 $300.00
450F MX 24 $290.00 250F MX 24 $290.00
450F MX 25 $280.00 250F MX 25 $280.00
450F MX 26 $270.00 250F MX 26 $270.00
450F MX 27 $260.00 250F MX 27 $260.00
450F MX 28 $250.00 250F MX 28 $250.00
450F MX 29 $240.00 250F MX 29 $240.00
450F MX 30 $220.00 250F MX 30 $220.00
450F MX 31 $220.00 250F MX 31 $220.00
450F MX 32 $220.00 250F MX 32 $220.00
450F MX 33 $220.00 250F MX 33 $220.00
450F MX 34 $220.00 250F MX 34 $220.00
450F MX 35 $220.00 250F MX 35 $220.00
450F MX 36 $220.00 250F MX 36 $220.00
450F MX 37 $220.00 250F MX 37 $220.00
450F MX 38 $220.00 250F MX 38 $220.00
450F MX 39 $220.00 250F MX 39 $220.00
450F MX 40 $220.00 250F MX 40 $220.00
450F MX Total $16,535 250F MX Total $16,535

AMA Motocross Event Total $66,140